Refuting an earlier report, TMZ says that Nicki Minaj will not take the stand in the trial of her brother Jelani Maraj, who is accused of raping a minor—an 11-year-old girl who was his stepdaughter at the time.

On June 17, a mistrial was declared in the sexual assault trial of fatherly actor and comedian Bill Cosby. Soon thereafter, Cosby’s publicity team announced that their client would hold a series of town hall meetings across the country to discuss sexual assault prevention. Now, however, they’re backing away from this…

Harrison Garcia, who has been referred to as a “27-year-old schmuck” by his own defense lawyer, currently awaits trial in Miami, having been accused of illegally selling marijuana, Xanax, and lean. Garcia reportedly referred to himself as the “CEO of Purple Drank,” and his Instagram handle is muhammad_a_lean.

After 15 years in prison, the women known as the “San Antonio Four” have been exonerated in a criminal case that upended their lives. Convicted in 1998 of gang-raping two little girls, the women have been found completely innocent.

For all the excitement over the opening of new seats on the Supreme Court, little attention is paid to the makeup of state courts. A new report from the American Constitution Society finally analyzed the demographics and found that the judges in these courts, who are in charge of presiding over 90 percent of the cases…

Disgraced Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial is expected to wrap up today; CBC reports that his defense team has chosen not to put him on the stand. Nor will they call any other witnesses or present any evidence; the trial has focused entirely on the credibility of his accusers.

Remember the English guy from last week who deflected rape charges by saying he had probably fallen inside his 18-year-old victim? Turns out he was recently acquitted! So, I was wrong, courts will actually believe anything that comes from the mouth of a rich middle-aged man.

Gayle Newland, a 25-year-old UK woman, was recently found guilty of three counts of sexual assault for impersonating a man in order to have sex with her female friend. Judge Roger Dutton, calling Newland “an intelligent, obsessional, highly manipulative, deceitful, scheming and thoroughly determined young woman,” has…

The case of Adnan Syed, the main subject in the popular podcast Serial, is officially being reopened. A Baltimore judge granted Syed’s request for a hearing, which will focus on a new witness and previous cellphone evidence. In 2000, Syed was convicted of the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, and is…

The ongoing and increasingly strange trial of Gayle Newland, a UK woman accused of sexually assaulting her blindfolded friend using a strap on and a false male identity, ground to a halt today after the defendant had a panic attack on the stand.

25-year-old Gayle Newland of Willaston, Cheshire is on trial in the UK for five counts of sexual assault against her female friend—according to the alleged victim, Newland pretended to be a Filipino-Latino man named Kye Fortune, developed a relationship with the woman over the internet and on the phone, and later had…

Dustin Diamond, whom you probably remember as Screech on Saved By the Bell, is currently on trial in Wisconsin for stabbing a man with a switchblade - an incident you probably don’t remember. The alleged events took place on “Christmas night” at a bar in Port Washington, WI, and the Journal Sentinalwrites that the…

Bad news: federal researchers shut down that HIV vaccine clinical trial everyone was super amped on after safety experts found that volunteers who took the experimental vaccine were actually slightly more likely to contract HIV than those who got a placebo. Well, fuck.

Once in a generation can we hope to witness the degree of terrible we're currently witnessing during the trial of John Edwards, former Presidential candidate, former Senator, eternal jackass. But Edwards, who fathered a child with a woman who was not his cancer-stricken wife and then allegedly paid her (his mistress,…

The trial of John Edwards continued yesterday with testimony from an aide who claimed the former Democratic Senator and ex- Presidential hopeful had a cute nickname for his former sex partner and the mother of his child — crazy slut. And boy did that crazy slut love to spend campaign money. Love is so beautiful and…

Depressing substance-addled celebrity Lindsay Lohan has been ordered by a judge to spend 30 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation. Those in the know say that she's probably more likely to serve about 6 days.

Florida millionaire Bob Ward, who lived in the same tony neighborhood as Olympic level philanderer Tiger Woods, has been found guilty of murdering his wife in 2009. Ward's attorney immediately announced that he planned to appeal the jury's verdict, which he blamed on another Florida woman- Casey Anthony.

"She just kept hugging Rosie," a psychologist toldThe New York Times. "She" was a fifteen-year-old testifying about her father repeatedly raping her, as well as impregnating her. Rosie is a golden retriever named after Rosa Parks who helps abused children testify in New York courts. Similarly-trained dogs work with…